Peterson, Mary A.
Professor
Program: Cognition and Neural Systems
Year of affiliation: 1988
Year of doctor degree: 1984
School: Columbia University
You may be familiar with some visual illusions, such as pictures that look like a rabbit one minute and like a duck the next minute. But the greatest of all visual illusions is the illusion that visual perception is instantaneous, simple, and direct. In both my teaching and research, I focus on how we percieve the world visually, a topic about which much is known, but about which a great deal remains to be discovered.
I currently teach two undergraduate psychology courses; Psych 329 (Sensation and Perception) and Psych 429 (Advanced Topics in Perception). In these courses, and in my reserch, I investigate the factors that influence visual perception from a behavioral and a biological perspectie.
My research centers on these topics with college student observers and we gain a neuropsychological perspective by testing elderly observers and individuals with brain damage.
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